Improved mosquito-screen frame



W. W. WOOLEY. MOSQUITO SCREEN FRAME.

,809. Patented June 28, 1870.

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OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 104,809, dated June 28, 1870.

IMPRQ V ED MOSQUITO-SCREEN FRAME.

The Schedule sefen'ed to in these Letters Patentvand making part of thename I, WALTER'W. WooLEY, of the city, county, and State of New York,have invented certain Improve- -ments;in Mosquito-Screens, of which thefollowing is' .a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the constructionof a cheap,simple,.and.efficientframehvork,

for reception of a wire, cotton, linen, or other net-- work,'so that,when the fabric is placed in the frame, and the frame placed in theidooror window-frame of a house, it will allow the air to pass throughforvent-ilation, but will exclude mosquitoes and othert-roublesomeinsects from the house. I v

For this mosquito-net frame I take a piece of square iscantling, andsink a groove on theface,for reception of the netting and tongue orstayrod. I next cut the piece up into the desired lengths, mitering theends, and I connect the mitered ends by one or more metallic staples, bywhich means I produce a'simple, cheap, and eflicient frame for receptionof the mosquito-net, as I will further explain'by reference to theaccompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 represents the face of theframe, -showing the netting and stay-rod in place, and the miter-jointssecured by the metallic staples;

Figure 2, a view of opposite side of frame;

Figure 3, a transverse section of flame; and 4 Figure 4, a sectionthrough one of the miter-joints and staples.

In the said drawing- A indicates the mosquito-net frame, having agroove, B, on its face, for reception of the ,net C and tongue orstay-rods -D.

E 19,830., are-the plain miters, braced and held together by themetallic staples F F, and forming the miter-joints G of the frame.

I am aware that it is not new to connect the sides of a mosquito-frameb'y tenon and mortise, by screws and metallic angle-brackets, ,whichconstruction is considered objectionable because of its expense, and

the desire for a more simple and cheap contrivance suggested to me themosquito-net frame, composed of plain miters, connected by metallicstaples, forming a good miter-joint and a cheap, substantial frame. as

set forth.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by- Letters Patent,is'- The frame A, composed of the sides, grooved'to receive the net ormaterial 0, and the tongues or stayrods'D D, and united by themiter-joints G G, fastened with the staples F F, substantially as hereinspecified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signatnrethis 14th day ofMay,1870.

WALTER \V. WOOLE-Y.

Witnesses ARTHUR N 1mm, \VAL'EER BREWER.

